EIA primary Teacher Facilitators (TFs) are a group of qualified and experienced primary English teachers responsible for providing peer support to the teachers and conducting the cluster meetings. They have a crucial role to play as ‘change agents’ in the transformation process of classroom teaching and learning.

The Teacher Facilitator Handbook is provided as a structured plan for conducting the cluster meetings. It also supports the TFs own capacity building in the process. The Teacher facilitator guides are broken down into four segments – introduction, cluster meeting guides, cluster meeting improvement strategies and appendices.

Introduction

The introduction starts off by discussing the roles and responsibilities of the teacher facilitators. These primarily entail their facilitation responsibilities towards the teachers and their partner facilitators and also techniques for carrying out the cluster meetings successfully and effectively. Like the Teacher Guide, there is also a section on social inclusion. The introduction wraps up with some pointers on the usage of English in the cluster meetings.

The Cluster Meeting Guides

The core content of this document is the eight cluster meeting plans. These plans provide detailed breakdown of each segment of the eight cluster meetings, elucidate the tasks and activities and provide their model answers and pave the way for the next cluster meeting.

Improving the cluster meetings

This is a Quality Assurance (QA) segment that asks the TF to perform certain duties that would collect data from the cluster meetings and feed it back to the English in Action headquarter, where this data would be analysed and used for QA purposes of the cluster meetings. These duties include dissemination of QA questionnaires and resolution of any problems regarding the data collection.

Appendices

The final segment of the guide includes 2 appendices. The first one is a collection of the role playing activities referred in cluster meeting guides and the second one is a glossary of the pedagogical terms used throughout the guide.

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